[PATCH 6/8] [GFS2] fs/gfs2/dir.c:gfs2_dir_write_data(): don't usean uninitialized variable

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Fri Oct 20 2006 - 05:12:26 EST


>From 348acd48f050f5ba7fa917b1421ae34443be97dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:20:04 +0200
Subject: [GFS2] fs/gfs2/dir.c:gfs2_dir_write_data(): don't use an uninitialized variable

In the "if (extlen)" case, "new" might be used uninitialized.

Looking at the code, it should be initialized to 0.

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/gfs2/dir.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/dir.c b/fs/gfs2/dir.c
index ce52bd9..ead7df0 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/dir.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static int gfs2_dir_write_data(struct gf
while (copied < size) {
unsigned int amount;
struct buffer_head *bh;
- int new;
+ int new = 0;

amount = size - copied;
if (amount > sdp->sd_sb.sb_bsize - o)
--
1.4.1



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